Beyond the lights
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Even though Noni won a Billboard award before even releasing a proper album, her career currently consists of little more than dressing in revealing outfits and moaning the choruses of raunchy songs by her label-mandated mentor/lover Kid Culprit (played by real-life rapper Machine Gun Kelly).
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Though Kaz is initially put off by Noni and her management’s attempts to wave off her near-plummet from a hotel balcony as a drunken indiscretion-suicidal singers don’t sell records, and Noni’s debut is about to drop-they’re soon enamored of each other. The pretty people in question are troubled up-and-coming singer Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, whose face is the reason the word “luminous” was coined), and Kaz (Nate Parker), the cop who saves her from an attempted suicide with some quick action and smooth talk. But writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood (who mined similar territory in 2000’s enduring Love & Basketball) ups the level of difficulty, adding pronounced feminist and racial undertones to a story about two very pretty people falling into a very pretty relationship. So even if Beyond The Lights did nothing greater than stick the landing of its preposterous-on-the-surface premise, it could be deemed a success. The showbiz melodrama isn’t an easy beast to wrangle, succumbing too easily to overwrought, facile statements about both human emotion and the entertainment industry.